This post is the last edition of the “Teach Your Parents Tech” series where Googlers help provide some tips and tricks you can gift your parents with this Holiday Season.

Like most people, I look forward to going home for the holidays and enjoying the good food, good company and much needed rest and relaxation. But as the techie in the family (read: I know what the control panel does), I also look forward to setting my parents up with whichever ‘cool’ technologies the evening news happened to mention since the last time I was home. This year I’m guessing I’ll be opening up a Twitter account for Dad and downloading Angry Birds for Mom.

Any time I go home though, I also try to teach them something they’ll be able to do themselves later on. This time, I’m going to show my parents how to change a screensaver on a Mac. Of course, first I’ll have to explain to them what the screensaver is. Here's how I imagine this conversation going:

Me: Want to see how to change your screensaver?

Mom: Sure... what’s a screensaver?

Me: That program on your computer that shows pictures of the family when you’re away.

Mom: Why does my computer show pictures of us when I’m away?

Dad: Computers get lonely, too.

(My dad is the comedian in the family, clearly.)

So instead of going through all that, I decided I’d just make this video instead. A bunch of my friends made videos, too, which you've probably seen over the last few weeks. We figured if we use Youtube to cover the computer stuff, you’ll have more time to play snow football. Of course, you might still have to teach your parents how to watch Youtube videos...

Hopefully you and your parents will find value in these videos, and Happy Holidays!

My mom, dad and brother and me circa when plastic glasses frames were cool the first time.